Soviet Linguistics over 50 Years, 1917–1967 (Sovetskoe yazykoznanie za 50 let). 1967. In Russian.

Советское языкознание за 50 лет, 1917—1967 : [сборник статей] / Академия наук СССР, Институт языкознания ; редакторы Р. М. Ижбулатова, В. К. Романов ; художник Л. С. Эрман ; художественный редактор Т. П. Поленова.
Москва : Издательство «Наука», 1967. — 428 с.
Издательский составной переплёт. В иллюстрированной издательской суперобложке. Увеличенный формат 70×100/16 (около 170×245 мм). Тираж 5 300 экземпляров. С сохранённым шёлковым красным ляссе.
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Soviet Linguistics over 50 Years, 1917–1967 : [a collection of essays] / USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics ; editors R. M. Izhbulatova, V. K. Romanov ; artist L. S. Erman ; art editor T. P. Polenova.
Moscow : Nauka Publishing House, 1967. — 428 pp.
Publisher's composite binding. In the original illustrated publisher's dust-jacket. Slightly enlarged format 70×100/16 (approximately 170×245 mm). Print run of 5,300 copies. With the original red silk ribbon bookmark preserved.
Condition good: light age-toning to the dust-jacket, minor edge nicks and rubbing, the binding itself clean, spine fully preserved. The silk ribbon bookmark intact. Text-block firm, leaves clean.

A landmark Soviet collective volume marking the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution and offering, language family by language family, a programmatic stocktaking of half a century of Soviet linguistic scholarship. Published by Nauka under the auspices of the Institute of Linguistics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the book runs from chapters on Russian (F. P. Filin, S. G. Barkhudarov), the other East and West Slavonic languages, Old Church Slavonic (N. I. Tolstoy, great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy and a foundational Slavist), through Baltic, Germanic, Romance, Classical, Armenian (E. G. Tumanyan), Iranian, Indic, Albanian, Celtic / Tocharian / Indo-European of Ancient Asia Minor (A. V. Desnitskaya), Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic, an extensive Turkic chapter signed by nine specialists (E. R. Tenishev, N. Z. Gadzhieva, L. A. Pokrovskaya, N. A. Baskakov and others), Mongolic, Tungus-Manchu, Korean (L. R. Kontsevich, the principal Soviet Koreanist), Caucasian (G. A. Klimov, the central figure of Soviet Caucasiology), Paleoasiatic, Japanese, Southeast Asian, Chinese, Malayo-Polynesian, Semitic-Hamitic and African languages, closing with a chapter on the indigenous languages of America and Oceania by Yury Valentinovich Knorozov — the celebrated decipherer of the Maya hieroglyphic script. The volume holds particular bibliographic interest as the (effectively posthumous) publication site of Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych's chapter on the comparative grammar of the Slavic languages: the brilliant young founder of the Nostratic hypothesis, Illich-Svitych had been killed in a road accident at the age of 31 in August 1966, while the book was still in production, and the volume was signed for printing in February 1967 carrying one of his last completed essays. Beyond its individual chapters the book is a significant historiographical document for the history of the Soviet humanities, recording how the Institute of Linguistics chose to narrate its own genealogy at the close of the Khrushchev period and the opening of the Brezhnev era. Issued in 5,300 copies through closed academic distribution, copies in the original dust-jacket are uncommon, and the volume is sought after by historical-linguistic specialists, by Knorozoviana and Illich-Svitychiana collectors, and by historians of Soviet science.